24: Live Another Day Episode 6 Promo

re: the timetable of the potential subway attack: This is all going down in the very early morning hours, not long before rush hour traffic, and Tony persuades Cara to make it happen as soon as possible and not wait. This is one of the more trickier things he pulls off while convincing Cara that he’s on her side because it makes him seem less on her side to be avoiding mass casualties as much as possible but that’s what he does. He uses the excuse of them running out of time to make all of this happen and goes on this big anti-government rant to her because he knows it will appeal to her ideals and she’ll get all hot and bothered lol and present his case to Wilson over this. Tony is not anti-government– he’s anti-Red Dots/people who have fucked him over. He *presents* as anti-government during Day 7 at times to further his overall end goals and, yeah, he’s not wildly happy about a lot of things that have happened to him because of the government, but saving the White House, the President, and outing hundreds of moles in the federal government tracks more like fighting hypocrisy within it than being against it in the first place. Anytime he says something anti-government on Day 7, he’s in a situation where he’s being watched and is presenting a front (at the FBI in the interrogation room and Jack sees through it a bit and later with Cara Bowden a couple of times.) Anyway… my point here is that if Tony wanted to kill epic amounts of people, he more than had the power to do so. He even avoided crashing the planes in the beginning, which was his entire selling point when it came to keeping his cover with Emerson and all the way up the chain to Cara Bowden.

re: Day 3 and the infected bodies: Jack states that everything that’s happened over the course of the day up to the moment that Jack & Tony & Gael are forced to tell everyone else about their sting has been *for* their sting. They had come to know that the Cordilla Virus existed and was going to be sold on the black market, which would have potentially caused massive amounts of life. At the same time, Jack had come back from Mexico with only one of the Salazar brothers and wanted to clean up that mess, since he spent all this time undercover with them and doing terrible things and if they didn’t get Hector, Jack’s actions would have been for nothing because cartel business would have just continued on. So, Jack and Gael and Tony launch a secret mission to kill two birds with one stone. They convince Hector that Jack is an embittered mole within the U.S. government who had no choice but to arrest Ramon in order to throw off suspicion and that he can help him get Ramon out of prison and then there’s a big payday happening if the Salazar brothers buy the virus from Jack’s broker friend (which Jack, Tony, and Gael had no plans of them ever keeping, of course.) In order to make this seem real, Jack had to give Hector proof of the virus’ existence because if you were Hector, would you believe a word out of the mouth of the guy you trusted like a brother and let have the family’s favorite tattoo who then threw your big brother in prison? When you trace the sting backwards, you see that David Goss, the drug dealer, is the medium that Jack, Tony, & Gael used to set everything in motion. Obviously, they couldn’t let the virus sample lead back to *them*… the point here was to protect Jack’s identity within the government. Goss is the point from which you get the virus being dropped off for Sunny Macer, the whole plot with Kyle Singer which was a faked wild goose chase. CTU’s phones are recorded, as we’ve seen before on the show, so the conversations Jack and Tony had when they were all like ‘hey did you find that kid who is infected with the virus yet?’ are the two of them having fake phone conversations. Jack, Tony, and Gael know that Kyle Singer is not infected with the virus the entire time but they put on this entire song & dance– they set him up. Your heroes did that to that kid, which is the big twist of the first few hours.

I agree that Tony’s situation has changed by Day 7 but his fundamental personality has not. For example, watch the scene, for example, when David Emerson savagely beats up the Matobo’s guard and we see Tony’s expression when Emerson isn’t watching him. It’s definitely not a guy who is enjoying what he’s up to in life. There are other factors in play, like how Tony wound up still alive after Day 5 and what Emerson tells Jack about all of that and what the Rogue CTU illustrates for Jack about that. Chloe looks guilty as all hell when she first sees Jack again and Jack realizes that Bill and Chloe knew that Tony was still alive and lied to him through half of Day 5 and all of Day 6 about it. This is the only thing that works with what the show tells us about how it came together.

The show says that Tony was revived ten minutes later in an ambulance. Why was Tony in an ambulance after being declared dead when CTU has a morgue? Who rushed his body out of CTU and why? The only thing that makes sense here is that, off-camera on Day 5, Bill realized that Henderson’s people would just keep coming after Tony until they killed him and they had an opportunity to pursue who the conspirators beyond Henderson were. The only person from CTU in a position to do that was Tony. A whole slew of events then happen after the nerve gas attack that are suspicious– Henderson was not really being drugged by Burke and was allowed to escape from CTU easily. He got away when half the place was still in lockdown. Whether or not you think Henderson intended on killing Tony when he stabs him and that maybe they cooked up a plan while trapped in that room together to make it look like he had and that maybe Henderson then tried to screw Tony over and really kill him… whatever you think happened here, watch Tony’s hand come up over the needle when Henderson stabs him. It’s entirely possible it was *Tony* who made it so that Henderson missed his heart and it wasn’t just a matter of luck. Tony’s body then reacts to the stuff and for all intents and purposes appears dead (and was dead but not permanently dead, oh soaps lol) and then the rest come into play. Chloe runs interference with the morgue that magically never gets Tony’s body and will wind up declaring another body Tony’s (since Renee dug up someone else out of Tony’s grave prior to Day 7.) Kim suddenly really has to go right now! Considering how she was completely unsurprised to find that Tony was still alive on Day 7 and how she could be construed as the closest thing to family Tony might have had left by that point on Day 5, maybe she claimed the body and got him in the ambulance. Considering her creepy boyfriend was in league with Henderson (who told Jack he’d been “taking care of” Kim, then she shows up with Barry), that might even work out a bit. Regardless of how Tony got from Point A to Point B, the point is that at least Chloe & Bill were in on a plot to fake Tony’s death and send him undercover with Henderson’s people because the circumstances of Michelle’s death gave Tony the best ever excuse for suddenly deciding to switch sides ever. This is why Tony tells Jack “deep sky” on Day 7 and Jack calls a hotline that leads back to Bill. Bill explains to Jack afterwards that when CTU was shut down by Allison Taylor, undercover operatives stuck on missions were left behind in the field– operatives like Tony. Bill and Chloe were working in secret to keep these missions going and these agents safe. The show says that Tony was on a sanctioned government mission until Allison Taylor shut down CTU. Does it mean that Tony did some terrible thing while working with Emerson? Absolutely. A lot of stuff that he admits he’s “not proud of.” The irony of it is that, until Allison Taylor, the government was paying for it. Yet, Tony’s first instinct isn’t to destroy Allison Taylor, it’s to out all the corruption in her government. Jack’s the one on trial for war crimes and all f-you, Senate Tribunal! while Tony’s the one trying to save the corrupted government but it’s Tony in handcuffs and leather and Jack in a khaki g-man overcoat and a combover. That’s kind of the irony of it at the start. By the end of the day, their positions flip because of the differences in their personal circumstances– Tony is revealed to having been using government resources for his overall end game, which is personal revenge tied in with preserving the greater good which, ironically, would have been funded by the U.S. government had CTU not been shut down. Jack starts to die and lose his mind and can’t see anything in front of him, down to his own reflection. Both Jack and Tony are enormously wrong in what they try to do. Enormously wrong. Guaranteed Alan Wilson walked away scot free because of the two of them, with a bonus helping of Renee and her rage problem torturing him half to death.